As Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, announced more than 50 lawmakers have joined the Tea Party Caucus, Democrats lashed out at the idea. “The Tea Party movement is the most important political movement of …

They poked into the straw with sticks and found him in it? ‘Are you still fasting?’ asked the overseer. ‘When on earth do you mean to stop?’ from Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” For some reason, news …

Rep. Aaron Pena, of Edinburg, was just greeted by a group of Republicans at state GOP headquarters. Pena and Rep. Allan Ritter, of Nederland, are expected to announce their switch from the Democratic …

Rep. Aaron Pena’s flirtation with Texas Republicans went public last week when the Edinburg Democrat acknowledged that he was considering a party switch. We spoke to Pena last night on his way back to …

The psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, as far as I know, never visited the Texas Legislature, but her classic “five stages of grief” offers an apt template for lawmakers trying to digest the baleful …